One of the newest Master WindowBlinds skin to hit the galleries this week is VXP 2010 by vStyler.  This is a complete redesign from the original VXP visual style from years ago.  Clean colors and a smooth design make this a definite winner. 

WinCustomize Subscribers also get a 20% discount off on Master Skins, so grab this now!

This has been an awesome week in the desktop customization community.  We had the big launch of WindowBlinds 7 which brings skinning to Windows 7, among the other cool features like Aero skinning, textures, etc. 

You can visit our YouTube page to see several video examples of WindowBlinds in action.   Take a look!

You might have seen screenshots and articles for the past couple of weeks showing off the hybrid .dream “Vintage”.  This is an elegant and subtle. dream with several layers that can be hidden to make the animated wallpaper even more subtle.

The Vintage .dream is included with DeskScapes 3, which you can find more information here.  Also in the Vintage series we have the Vintage MyColors theme.  This theme stays true to the classic Vintage concept, and includes a visual style, wallpaper, icons, and weather gadget. 

Vintage MyColors Theme

Today we release a new premium WindowBlinds skin for WinCusomize Subscribers.  This skin is called Tiki, designed and created by Hippy.  As the name says, this skin is all about the tiki, and makes use of beautiful colors and bamboo textures.  Bring a bit of paradise to your desktop with this skin.

WinCustomize Subscribers can grab this skin now from the Subscriber Resources area.  If you are not a subscriber, it’s not too late to join and get great skins like these.

Each year, like most companies, Stardock puts together an internal business plan that sets up goals, objectives, and challenges that the company must address.

Part of our internal business plan includes analysis of the state of the products/services we make as well as the results of our customer survey.

Last year, we made this report available to the public and based on the positive response we got for doing so, we’re doing the same again this year.

View: Stardock 2009 Customer Report

Take a closer look at Fences, and all its essential functions with this new screencast walkthrough of Fences.  After the video, be sure to head over and grab your free download of Fences.

http://www.stardock.com/products/fences/

Stardock released WindowBlinds 7 today. WindowBlinds is a program that allows users to customize the user interface of Microsoft Windows. By applying “skins,” WindowBlinds can easily change nearly every element of the Windows experience including the task bar, Start menu, window borders, scrollbars, push buttons, and much more.

WindowBlinds 7 includes a host of new features and adds native support for Windows 7. Amongst its new features is the ability to “skin Aero.”  WindowBlinds 7 includes a new configuration program that makes it easy to access the new features of the program. For example, users can now add their own textures to existing skins.

WindowBlinds 7 is available as a free download. It costs $19.95 to register or can be purchased for $49.95 as part of Object Desktop, Stardock’s full suite of desktop enhancement programs. Users of previous versions of WindowBlinds can upgrade for $9.95.

To learn more, visit http://www.windowblinds.net.

WindowBlinds 7 is going to be released very, very soon.  To kick it off Frogboy has created a thorough walkthrough of WindowBlinds 7 and how it has progressed from version 6.  Tons of new features are included, and this article gives a great overview of them.

WindowBlinds 7: A guided Tour

I hope everyone had an enjoyable weekend!  It’s Monday, so as usual we want to start the week of right with a recap of just some of the skins that were submitted to WinCustomize over the past couple of days.  I see a wide variety of skins have made it in, so be sure to check out the galleries to see what else is new.

Check out the weekend picks!

Master Skinner DanilloOC has created a new guide for WindowBlinds 7.  This guide outlines how to manually add shadows to Aero.  This is another great resource for skinners, and a big thanks to Dani for taking the time to put this together.

Download: WB7 guide – DWM – Aero Shadows